The thousand-year porcelain capital — where kaolin clay and Chang River water combine to produce the synonym for Chinese ceramics, the porcelain fountainhead of the Maritime Silk Road.

Jingdezhen Jiangxi

Ancient brick porcelain kilns with smoke rising from their chimneys, local craftsmen shaping clay under the eaves of traditional wooden workshops, stacks of blue-and-white porcelain drying in the courtyard